· 8/16/1983
O'GRADY v. Brown
Citations
- 654 S.W.2d 904
- 1983 Mo. LEXIS 381
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that one of the purposes of the Missouri wrongful death statute is to deter tortious or other harmful conduct that leads to death
- court held the term \person\ as used under Missouri's wrongful death statute includes the human fetus en ventre sa mere, and further stated to hold otherwise would frustrate the remedial purpose for which the statute was intended
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Judges: Pudlowski, Higgins, Gunn, Billings, Black-Mar, Donnelly, Rendlen, Welliver
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